Excise and Excise-equivalent Duties Table (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Excise and Excise-equivalent Duties Table to increase the rates of excise duty and excise-equivalent duty on motor spirits on 1 July 2019 and 1 July 2020. This bill also amends the Land Transport Management (Apportionment and Refund of Excise Duty and Excise-Equivalent Duty) Regulations 2004 to consequentially increase the refunds available under those regulations.

Voting method

Party voting: Parties decided whether or not to support this bill and cast votes on behalf of all their MPs.

Procedural notes

• Urgency used: This bill was progressed through one or more stages using urgency. Urgency allows the Government to fast-track the legislative process by extending the sitting hours of the House of Representatives and skipping the select committee stage of a bill, and allows bills to pass through more than one stage per sitting day.
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Read the bill

Bill text: Excise and Excise-equivalent Duties Table (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Bill (legislation.govt.nz)
Act text: Excise and Excise-equivalent Duties Table (Budget Measures—Motor Spirits) Amendment Act 2019 (legislation.govt.nz)

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